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Feb 1, 2016

Unmasking the Cucks: How “Conservatives” Betrayed America

Cuckservative! A term for duplicitous, nation-betraying
pseudo-conservatives, it was the Insult of the Year for 2015. It
horrified the lefties at Salon and the Washington Post last summer, and appalled the faux-conservatives at National Review, all of whom denounced it as crude, offensive, and obscene.

Such a marvelous neologism was tailor-made for a book title, and here
we are with the first one out of the chute, by Vox Day and John Red
Eagle. Fresh as yesterday’s news–it mentions the Bataclan theater
killings in Paris on November 13, and the San Bernardino shootings of
December 2–Cuckservative is at once a book of trenchant
political criticism, a detailed economic analysis of the costs of
unbridled immigration, a historical survey of human migration and its
perils, and a call to arms.

What does immigration have to do with cuckservatism? Right now,
immigration, amnesty, and whether to admit Muslim “refugees” are the
biggest issues in the national debate. Among so-called conservatives,
they’re what divide the cucks–such as Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio–from
those of a more nationalist or race-realist type of whom the most
obvious example is Donald Trump.

And the immigration debate isn’t just another political squabble that
will blow over in six months. It is a crisis of gravest historical
significance. As the authors explain:

Cuckservatism . . . has already presented an existential
threat to the United States of America in barely half the time it took
communism to bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union . . . . The
50-year mass migration into the United States [i.e., since 1965] is the
single largest invasion in human history. At over 60 million, it dwarfs
Operation Barbarossa, in which Hitler sent 3.8 million men into the
Soviet Union. It is two orders of magnitude larger than
the Mongol horde of Batu Khan, which conquered over 2.3 million square
miles of territory from Burma to Bulgaria. It is one thousand times larger
than the First Crusade. And it is twice the number of immigrants who
entered the United States between 1870 and 1930 and, at the time,
represented an estimated 60 percent of the entire world’s immigrants.

It requires a near-complete ignorance of history to assume, as
cuckservatives do, that an invasion of this magnitude will not have an
extraordinary impact on the long-term fate of the United States, or that
it does not represent an existential threat to the very survival of
America as a nation.

This gaze into the abyss comes from the final chapter, “A Challenge
to the Cuckservative,” in what I describe as the call to arms. It’s such
a shivering-cold look at our possible (probable?) future, it makes me
grateful the authors chose such a whimsical, frivolous title for the
book. If Mr. Day and Mr. Red Eagle had called their book Suicide by Immigration or How America Ends I think it would have been too painful to read.

Instead, the authors ease us into the nightmare gradually. We start
with a friendly, sprightly foreword by blogger/Twitter personality and
author of Gorilla Mindset, Mike Cernovich:

The word “cuckservative” triggers conservatives. As a
prominent user of the word, I’ve seen the leading voices in mainstream
conservatism react in horror when called a cuck. On Twitter, the very
men who complain that society has been too feminized shriek like little
girls and block anyone who uses the term. National Review, the leading
publication of the mainstream conservative movement, has even begun to
ban commenters who dare to use it . . . .

The Republican Party, as well as conservative media standard bearers such as National Review
and think tanks like the Manhattan Institute, have sold out the
American people. Not only do these “conservatives” constantly call for
open borders despite their disastrous effects on most Americans, but
they have appropriated the terminology of the Left in calling all those
who oppose open borders “racists” or “xenophobes.”

So, cuckservatives are false conservatives who are thrilled to see real Americans get screwed over by immigration!

After that crisp précis of the cuckservative-immigration nexus,
the authors move on to recent events. They remind us of the immigration
crises of 2014-2015, beginning with the story of “unaccompanied
children” from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras suddenly streaming
across our southern border. Then there’s the broader crisis in the
Middle East, as millions of refugees swarm into southeastern and finally
western Europe. And yet this European “refugee” crisis–I use quotation
marks because these migrants are mainly single young men and do not fit
the UN definition of refugees–is small beer compared to what’s happening
in our own country:

[I]n 2013 alone the U.S.A. took in 1,060,462 people,
280,276 of them Muslim. Those one million new U.S. residents are in
addition to the 12 million illegal aliens who already reside in the
United States, part of a demographic change that has seen the
European-American share of the population decline to 62.1 percent, down
from 87.5 percent in 1950.

And this explains the phenomenon of Donald Trump, the one Republican
presidential contender who calls for the deportation of all 12 million
illegals. It also helps explain the popularity of socialist Sen. Bernie
Sanders, the lone Democratic hopeful who has dared to criticize unbridled immigration.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Sanders are the only two presidential candidates who argue that immigrants, legal and otherwise, hurt employment and wages
among Americans. Regarded as gadflies and flakes by the mainstream
Republicans and Democrats, these two men seemed to connect with ordinary
Americans, and their poll numbers skyrocketed. (Note: While Mr. Sanders
supports a “path to citizenship”
for illegals, he has repeatedly blamed Wall Street for the immigration
problem, and implied that the numbers need to be curtailed.)

* * *

The subject matter of Cuckservative is much grimmer than that of Vox Day’s previous book, SJWs Always Lie,
but the two bear a striking resemblance. They both have excellent,
vicious cartoons by the pseudonymous “Red Meat,” and a foreword by a
quasi-celebrity of internet culture (Milo Yiannopoulos wrote the
foreword for SJWs). Both books’ opening chapters give us a
quick overview, gradually leading into deep, sometimes abstruse
background material. In Cuckservative, Messrs. Red Eagle and
Day warm us up by demolishing the whole mythology surrounding the canard
that America is a “nation of immigrants.”

The Melting Pot: This wasn’t some traditional watchword of
American democracy and equality. It was the title of a 1908 play by
Israel Zangwill about recent immigrants from Tsarist Russia to the Lower
East Side of New York.

“Give me your tired your poor . . .“: This Emma Lazarus poem, inscribed on a plaque affixed to the Statue of Liberty, has been used for 130 years to advance thenation-of-immigrants idea.
After Ellis Island became a processing center in the 1890s, the poem
was even used to imply that the purpose of the statue was to welcome
immigrants. In fact, the statue’s real name is Liberty Enlightening the
World, and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the
United States as a land of liberty.

The United States was founded, intentionally, as a nation of immigrants. This is one of those softpropaganda
lies invoked to justify mass immigration. In fact, the U.S.A. was
founded by and for English-speaking inhabitants mostly from the British
Isles. There were immigration restrictions from the very start, and the
first American citizenship law allowed naturalization only of “free
white persons of good character.” There were no “anchor babies” and no
automatic spousal-citizenship provisions.The Magic Dirt theory: This is the notion that a plot of
earth can magically change indelible traits: culture, DNA, whatever. You
can plant a Canary Island palm in Nova Scotia and it will turn into a
Douglas Fir. Change the nationality of Guatemalan indios to “American” and they will become Ozzie and Harriet. This “theory,” which Vox Day says he coined himself, is of course a joke. What isn’t
amusing is that its premises are accepted by most of our politicians
and public-policy makers. We’re not supposed to discriminate between
people of different races, cultures, or national origins because once
they are blessed by our Magic Dirt, they are all Americans, same as us.

American exceptionalism; American freedom: the U.S.A.
attracts immigrants because it is unique in its level of freedom and
restraint of state power. That’s what we still tell ourselves, even
though abuses of state power have grown enormously in the past century:

Today, in many parts of the Unites States, police can
smash in your door in the middle of the night with a battering ram, lob
flash-bang hand grenades inside, drag you and children out of bed or
bath at gunpoint, kick or rifle-butt you to the ground if you fail to
obey quickly enough, and shoot your dog if it barks too much . . . .
Similarly, the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies
can target private citizens on the basis of their political views,
without any consequences for those who ordered it to be done . . . .

By whatever combination of cultural decay and demographic changes in
the electorate, today’s Americans already tolerate impositions greater
than those that triggered the Revolution. Leftists, particularly since
they made their decisive break with the white working class in the
1970s, enthusiastically support the importation of people for whom the
above abuses are not new and unwelcome changes, but the normal
experience of government throughout history.

The authors then vivisect both our disastrous immigration policy and
the follies of cuckservatism, and include a “field guide to identifying
the American cuckservative:”

The cuckservative:

Thinks the United States’ problems can be solved by tax cuts for billionaires.

Believes that the historical culture and political traditions of an
immigrant’s homeland have no bearing on that immigrant’s future opinions
and voting patterns in the United States.

Insists the Republican Party needs to cater to recent Hispanic immigrants to stay relevant.

Supports “a path to citizenship”–amnesty–for illegals.

Asserts that “diversity is our strength.”

Is white, but has adopted a nonwhite child.

Claims the word cuckservative is racist.

The authors also provide a history of the 1965 Immigration Act, which
took away our traditional restrictions on nonwhite immigrants, and they
deflate myths about immigration.

President Lyndon Johnson at Liberty Island to sign the 1965 Immigration Act.

For example, we are often told by both liberals and cuckservatives
that immigration is good for the economy. Last summer, the leftist site
ThinkProgress.com took Bernie Sanders to task for
saying that immigrants take American jobs. ThinkProgress cited a study
“proving” that each new immigrant created 1.2 jobs for local workers,
and had the potential for adding 2.5. The authors of Cuckservative
traced these claims to the source, and found that the paper on which
they were based had excluded most of the country, and most immigrants.

The authors re-analyzed the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and found that immigration between 1980 and 2013 cost American
workers about one-fifth of a job per immigrant. It’s an intellectual
loss as well. In the U.S., and in Britain, the average I.Q. of teenagers
dropped two or three points between 1980 and 2008, partly due to
immigration of relatively low-I.Q. nonwhites.

* * *

Both authors claim American Indian heritage, and they try to draw
analogies between the dispossession of the Red Indians and what is now
facing white Americans. For example, they offer the Shawnee chief
Tecumseh as a kind of nativist prototype who decided to fight the white
invader.

These comparisons are inaccurate, and are among the few false notes I
found in the book. There never was any unitary Indian Nation; the
various tribes of North America fought each other at least as much as
they fought the white man. And the political effort to reverse illegal
immigration is not seeking to reclaim a nameless patch of soil in North
America, but rather to save and preserve the nation known as the United
States of America.

Still, the Indian card is a useful one to play when engaging in this
debate, since it shuts down the usual attack favored by immigration
hucksters: Your people were once immigrants, too! So I
can’t blame John Red Eagle and Vox Day for waving their feathers. It
gives them a nice rhetorical device: “We’ve seen it all before! Don’t
let this happen to you!”